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GuySuCo racks up US$40M debt to local banks, creditors

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo racks up US$40M debt to local banks, creditors

– overseas bank refuse to lend money The state-owned sugar company is finding major difficulty in obtaining short-term financing. Yesterday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo),...

Fallen electric wires snarl traffic along Rupert Craig highway E.C.D.

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fallen electric wires snarl traffic along Rupert Craig highway E.C.D.

…pipeline to Jagdeo’s mansion blamed for pole collapse Several villages between Le Ressouvenir and Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, were without electricity for close to three...

Robert Persaud’s Ministry has no authority to spend money

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Robert Persaud’s Ministry has no authority to spend money

…still to be gazetted-Greenidge While there are those that laud the creation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, there are those that criticize the expansion of...

Two more murders rock Guyana’s goldfields

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two more murders rock Guyana’s goldfields

Police in the interior are investigating two more murders that have occurred on Monday. One of the murders involves a Guyanese called “Tall Man” while the other is that of a Brazilian....

New Chinese ferries to cost $50M per month

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New Chinese ferries to cost $50M per month

– Diesel-run Caterpillar engines unsuitable, more expensive Two new Chinese-built ferries that will ply the Parika/Supenaam route are likely to cost Guyanese taxpayers millions of...

Former headmaster crushed to death by cop’s car

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Former headmaster crushed to death by cop’s car

Fingers are being pointed at a senior police officer on the Essequibo Coast, after he reportedly drove his vehicle over a retired headmaster, killing him instantly on Monday...

Mash Violent Music

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Mash Violent Music

With Mashramani nigh upon us and a welter of musical concerts becoming permanent fixtures of our landscape, it might be time to revisit the vexed question of the possible effects some of this...

Me and a 22-year-old girl illegally in someone else’s car

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Me and a 22-year-old girl illegally in someone else’s car

On Monday morning, a group of us, in Gerhard Ramsaroop’s car, set out early for Berbice. Three forms of protest had struck Berbice. There was the ongoing strike at Blairmont. Rose Hall workers also...

GOVERNMENTS WE LOVE TO HATE BUT CANNOT DO WITHOUT

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GOVERNMENTS WE LOVE TO HATE BUT CANNOT DO WITHOUT

Government–the thing we love to hate so much but without which we can do very little… at least in Guyana. We love to loathe government, to criticize, to demand things from it,...

Dem boys seh…De guru send Dr Rat fuh a bath

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De guru send Dr Rat fuh a bath

When de Skeldon sugar factory start fuh operate it had teething problems. Every time dem boys talk, all Rob-Bert use to seh is that it got teething problems. Well de teething problems...

EBFA appealing to Sports Minister to intervene

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA appealing to Sports Minister to intervene

Grove/Diamond NDC barring association from uses of Diamond Ground The Honourable Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony has gone on record encouraging the full use of the hundreds of Community...

NaMilCo Football Festival…Alpha’s mental resilience could be tested this evening

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on NaMilCo Football Festival…Alpha’s mental resilience could be tested this evening

By Rawle Welch Stuck in the middle of the ongoing joke between the Guyana Football Federation and the Guyana Football Association, Guyana’s premier club Alpha United mental resilience...

Priyanna Ramdhani cops early title in NSC Mash Badminton tourney

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Priyanna Ramdhani cops early title in NSC Mash Badminton tourney

The Guyana Badminton Association, National Sports Commission Annual Junior Mashramani Tournament continued at the Queens College Badminton Courts on Monday with several matches. The...

Golden Jaguars around the world update!…Ricky Shakes and Howard Newton the star Jaguars of the Week

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars around the world update!…Ricky Shakes and Howard Newton the star Jaguars of the Week

Winger Ricky Shakes and Mid-fielder Howard Newton were the ‘Golden Jaguars’ players to score over the weekend, as they aided their clubs Ebbsfleet United and St. Albans Football Clubs to...

Local based Golden Jaguars on developmental path on C’bean tour

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local based Golden Jaguars on developmental path on C’bean tour

– Shabazz Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’ four game Caribbean tour, which forms part of the training and developmental plan ahead of stage-three of the CONCACAF FIFA World Cup...

Mayor’s Cup Inter-Ward football tourney kicks off March 16

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup Inter-Ward football tourney kicks off March 16

Football fans are in for a treat when the annual Mayor’s Cup inter Ward Football championships get underway from Friday March16 and culminates on Sunday April 8. The Inter-Ward format...

Guyanese youth and junior athletes gearing for upcoming 2012 CARIFTA Games trials

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese youth and junior athletes gearing for upcoming 2012 CARIFTA Games trials

– last year four athletes represented Guyana in Jamaica In two weeks, to be precise, March 4th, athletes from across the trails will be vying to be selected to represent...

E’bo businessman host second 20/20 floodlight football

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on E’bo businessman host second 20/20 floodlight football

Businessman, Wayne Moore, who has a passion for football, will be hosting another segment of the shorter version of floodlight football this weekend. The 20/20 game is scheduled to...

Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club congratulates Fudadin

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club congratulates Fudadin

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club has extended congratulation to Assad Fudadin on reaching his first ton in regional cricket. The message reads: “The Patron Beverley...

Devers to return to T&T Brain Surgeon in six months

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Devers to return to T&T Brain Surgeon in six months

Immediate Surgery would affect his speech “I know God saved my life for me to testify to his greatness,” said International Radio Cricket Broadcaster Sean Devers on his...

IMC moves to Bernice as cricket consultations continue

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on IMC moves to Bernice as cricket consultations continue

Even as the controversy over the right to administrate over Guyana’s cricket deepens, the Government installed Interim Management Committee (IMC), led by Chairman and former West...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Analyzing Clive Lloyd’s resignation with the WICB Is Clive Lloyd being hypocritical to himself?

Feb 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Analyzing Clive Lloyd’s resignation with the WICB Is Clive Lloyd being hypocritical to himself?

Dear Editor, By his own words in this resignation letter, Clive Lloyd has now advised all and sundry that “he was appointed as a SPECIAL ADVISOR ON SPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT OF...